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With quarterbacks Tajh Boyd and Mike Glennon manning the controls, Saturday’s game between Clemson and N.C. State evolved into a near-four-hour affair long on offense, short on defense and rife with record-breaking performances.

And when the video game finally came to an end, Clemson had emerged with a 62-48 victory.

“What an incredible game,” Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said. “There were just a lot of things going on in the game.”

Without a doubt.

Boyd continued his outstanding play of late, passing for 426 yards with five touchdowns and rushing for a career-high 103 more with three touchdowns. His eight scores broke school and Atlantic Coast Conference records for touchdown responsibility in a game.

But Morris was most impressed with the way Boyd and the offense reacted after N.C. State scored 24 consecutive points to erase a 13-0 deficit in the first quarter.

“Nobody ever blinked,” Morris said. “There was unbelievable confidence on the sidelines. It was, ‘Let’s do what we do.’ ”

The Tigers (10-1, including 7-1 in ACC games) did just that, scoring 42 consecutive points in video game fashion.

“We expect to score every time we get the ball,” senior center Dalton Freeman said. “If that’s what we have to do to win, we will.”

Clemson ran a school-record 102 offensive plays and amassed 754 yards – the second-best total in school history behind only the 756 yards the Tigers posted in an 82-24 win against Wake Forest in 1981. Clemson and N.C. State combined for 110 points, breaking the record for most points set in that 1981 game, and totaled 1,351 yards – the most in Clemson history by two teams.

The crazy was suddenly the norm. N.C. State had four one-play touchdown drives, and senior receiver/return specialist Tobias Palmer pretty much kept the Wolfpack (6-5, 3-4) in the game, catching seven passes for 219 yards with three touchdowns and returning eight kickoffs for 277 yards. His 496 all-purpose yards are an ACC record.

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Both teams had a 400-yard passer, two 100-yard receivers and a 100-yard rusher. Clemson had a season-high 34 first downs and 328 yards rushing.

Andre Ellington rushed for 124 yards, his first 100-yard game since Sept. 29 at Boston College, and Sammy Watkins had a career-best 11 catches for 110 yards.

“That’s a really good offensive football team,” N.C. State coach Tom O’Brien said. “They’re not a good matchup for us. They had too much skill for us.”

But most impressive was the 42-0 run that seemed almost surreal. Boyd jump-started it with a 7-yard scoring pass to Brandon Ford, then threw touchdown passes to Sammy Watkins and DeAndre Hopkins before scoring on a pair of 9-yard runs. A 40-yard touchdown pass to Martavis Bryant capped the rally.

“It’s not something we try to script,” Morris said. “It just happens that way.”

Not lost in the long list of records was the significance of the victory, which was Clemson’s 13th in a row at home and enabled the Tigers to claim a 10th win during the regular season for the first time since their national championship season of 1981.

“I feel like we broke down a lot of barriers,” Boyd said. “We really wanted to get 10 wins in the regular season. I’m proud of the way the guys pushed through today. We proved that we can consistently win – now it’s time to finish strong.”

Clemson, ranked 11th in the BCS Standings, turns its attention to archrival South Carolina, which visits Memorial Stadium on Saturday riding a three-game winning streak against the Tigers.

“We just left some things out there last year,” Boyd said. “We haven’t beat this team in the last three years, and it’s one of those things that I think is a must-win situation for us.

“It hasn’t happened, but we can’t go out there pressing, can’t go out there forcing. I know fans are excited about it. It’s a night game, and we haven’t had one in a long time. It’s gonna be a fun game with a lot of energy, a lot of hostility, probably. We’ve got to be ready to compete.”